Setting Up Permissions for the eIntranet

This section shows several examples of creating groups with specific permissions. For complete information about setting permissions, see the Ektron CMS400.NET Reference Manual.

By default, Ektron eIntranet has permission groups for the following groups:

• Administrators (full control)
• Department managers (control over department pages)
• Department members (control over content creation in department spaces)
• Everyone (read-only in specific areas)
• Content Approvers (a group of specified people to approve content before it can be published to the Ektron eIntranet site)

To access the default permission group settings, enter the Workarea and choose Settings > User Groups. The following figure shows the default user groups.

Although you can set permissions on a per user basis, it is more effective to establish groups that have specific permissions and then add or delete users from the permission groups.

You can apply permissions to CMS400.NET folders, or content within a folder. For example, you may want some users with specific permission to post announcements, and another set of users to manage the content on the Human Resources department page, which is maintained in the Human Resources folder. The following figure shows the default permissions table for the top-level Folders content.

Folders inherit the properties of their parent folder unless you choose to break the inheritance and modify the properties of a folder. For example, the default Engineering page does not have the inheritance of the root folder (where the Everyone group has many permissions). Instead, the Engineering page has 3 groups with different levels of permissions, as shown in the following figure.

On the department pages, the Everyone group has only Read-only and Traverse Folder permissions. Department managers have complete control, while department members can create content but cannot create collections or folders and cannot restore deleted items.